DNA and RNA
The full name of DNA.
What is Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid?
The process where RNA copies DNA's message in the nucleus
What is transcription?
A function of mitosis for multicellular organisms.
What is growth and repair?
An individual with two different alleles (one dominant and one recessive) for a trait.
What is heterozygous?
A sequence of DNA wrapped around a protein.
What is a chromosome?
The nitrogenous base in RNA that replaces Thymine in DNA.
What is Uracil?
The location in a eukaryotic cell where the process of translation takes place.
What is the ribosome?
The combined cell that is created by the union of a sperm and an egg cell.
If purple flowers (P) are dominant to white (p), the genotype of a white-flowered plant.
What is pp?
The first 22 pairs of chromosomes in a human, coding for physical characteristics.
What are autosomes?
This nucleic acid can leave the nucleus.
What is RNA?
The end result of DNA replication.
What are 2 identical DNA molecules?
The name of the cells produced in meiosis.
What are gametes?
The "father of modern genetics" who studied inheritance in pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A diploid reproductive cell.
What is a germ cell?
According to base pairing rules, if a DNA sample has 20% Guanine, this is the expected percentage of Adenine (A).
What is 30%?
The molecule that carries DNA’s protein-encoding message from the nucleus to the ribosome.
What is RNA?
All cell divisions start with this type of cell.
What is a diploid cell?
A cross between a heterozygous parent and a homozygous recessive parent will yield this percentage of heterozygous offspring.
What is 50%?
All of the genetic information in a cell.
What is a genome?
If a segment of a template DNA strand being transcribed is TCCAGA, this is the sequence of the complementary RNA strand.
What is AGGUCU?
The enzyme that unwinds and separates the two DNA strands during DNA replication.
What is the DNA polymerase?
This is the specific step that immediately follows cytokinesis in the continuous cell cycle.
What is interphase?
A man who is heterozygous for brown eyes marries a homozygous dominant woman for brown eyes. This is the probability they will have a child with blue eyes.
What is 0%?
The most common, naturally occurring form of a gene or organism's phenotype in a natural population.
What is a wild type?